The Food and Drug Administration is considering the use of leeches and maggots in more medical procedures.

Lisa Darmo, of Carolina Biological Supply in Burlington, says special leeches for medical use only are imported from England and shipped to hospitals across the country

A Study suggests women are nearly twice as likely as men to die from complications of heart bypass surgery.

In a review of records for 15,440 patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), researchers found that 4.24-percent of women died during or immediately after surgery, versus 2.23-percent of men, a statistically significant difference

A woman is home after giving birth to triplets and then undergoing emergency heart surgery.

Doctors performed an emergency caesarean operation after the woman came to the hospital August 19 with head and neck pain

A woman is home today after giving birth to triplets and then undergoing emergency heart surgery

A test released Wednesday shows that the drug misoprostol is almost as effective as surgery for removing tissue that remains in the uterus after a failed pregnancy.

The drug, called Cytotec by manufacturers G.D. Searle and Pfizer Inc., has a success rate of around 85 percent, says Jun Zhang of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the chief author of the study